QR CODES

Last week my class had their annual open night. This night offers an excellent opportunity to communicate ideas and information about class room learning and routines. Usually, the students excitedly show their parents pieces of work displayed on pin-up boards and even their laptop. But do the students effectively communicate the 'point' of the task? Or is it just a 'this is my work' exhibition? I thought we could do more.

Parents and families arrived, signed in on the iPad and took a loaned Apple iTouch (or used their own mobile device) to scan the QR codes. Using these QR codes provided more information that I dictated and felt was important to share with our visitors. There was also a question for the students' visitors to ask them to test their understanding of the topic, piece of work or why routines were adopted. It was awesome to see interested parents and students from other class come in to scan the codes and to find out a little more than the brief "Here's my work" response from students!

Thanks to Apple for the loan of the iTouches. This is certainly not something I will include in every lesson, but QR codes served the purpose with minimum fuss - just a download of a QR encoder, printing and laminating (just to make it look pretty!). Thanks also to @marragem who provided the inspiration for QR codes in the class room. :)